This weekend is going to be an exciting one! I’m off to Brighton on a training course to further explore my interest in teaching meditation to children. In one of my guises, I am a teacher and I have been trying out whole class meditations with pupils aged ten and eleven. I have had some great responses from the pupils; some of whom have said they employed the techniques I taught them when they were sitting their recent SATs tests. It is amazing how much presssure there is on young people these days to perform well in exams, get into ‘good’ schools, not to mention trying to fund university or find a job when they are older. I do remember however, feeling anxious and worried about similar things myself when I was younger, so maybe it was always this way? I think I could have done with knowing more about how to lower my own stress levels and also being more able to put things in perspective. I am a true believer in enabling young people to do things and think for themselves by skilling them up and teaching them how to be pro-active. We are not all destined to stay they way we were when we were born! We can improve and develop ourselves, and this includes learing to take care of our own levels of stress through meditation.
Visualisation is a simple and effective tool in meditation